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May 2008 (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 16: Best Websites for Getting Organized and Staying Focused (0)
- 12: The Best Money Management Tips, Tools and Resources (April 2008) (1)
- 09: Online Tools to Help Find the Lowest Gas Prices (5)
- 07: How to Turn Mistakes into Opportunities (a real life example) (7)
- 05: April 2008 in Review (250,000th Visitor Edition!) (3)
- 02: The Federal Gas Tax–Are the Presidential Candidates Trying to Buy Our Votes? (5)
- 01: Tax Rebate Deals–Supersize Your Economic Stimulus Payment (17)
April 2008 (17)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: Your Money’s Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections–Taxes (11)
- 29: Do You ‘Steal’ Money From Your Spouse? (8)
- 28: 25 Ways to Save Money on Gas (17)
- 27: Tax Rebate–A Complete Guide to the Economic Stimulus Package (3)
- 23: Warning: Your home equity line of credit may evaporate in an emergency (11)
- 21: 11 Online Retirement Calculators (5)
- 17: Look What Crate & Barrel did to my Sunroom (13)
- 16: Senator Obama promises a 5-minute tax return (11)
- 15: Rate My Posts (4)
- 14: Flood Insurance: Are you sure your home is covered? (5)
- 13: Senator Obama Outspending Senator Clinton 3 to 1 in Pennsylvania (0)
- 12: Revolution Money Exchange–A Free PayPal Alternative (4)
- 09: ING Electric Orange Checking Account–$25 Bonus Referral (0)
- 08: Lending Club Halts New Lender Registrations and Referral Program Pending Filing with SEC (12)
- 07: Clinton’s Earn $109 Million as Unemployment Jumps to 5.1% (2)
- 04: Best of March 2008 (12)
- 01: March 2008 in Review (4)
March 2008 (16)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Reader Question: Should $15,000 be invested in P2P Lending or in a Better Mortgage? (7)
- 28: Here’s the Real Deal on Dave Ramsey and Debt (20)
- 26: 3 Simple Questions That Can Change Your Life (8)
- 24: Why Don’t More Americans Give a Damn About the Environment? (16)
- 21: How to outsource parenting: a guide to letting somebody else raise your child (14)
- 19: 20 Inexpensive Ways to Lower Your Utility Bills (14)
- 16: Credit Card Reform Act of 2008–Congress to the Rescue (9)
- 14: 0% Balance Transfer Credit Cards (19)
- 13: 8 Articles to Help Motivate You to Improve Your Finances (8)
- 12: Tracking Time with Firefox Extensions (1)
- 10: Best of January and February 2008 (2)
- 09: ING Direct Orange Savings Account–$25 Bonus Referral (1)
- 07: 5 Steps To Conquering a Debilitating Fear of Change (10)
- 07: DR Charitable Donations and Investments (February 2008 edition) (3)
- 05: Looking to Attend College for Free? Try Harvard (6)
- 03: Dave Ramsey’s Step #4: A Visual Guide to Saving 15% for Retirement in a Roth 401(k) (21)
February 2008 (17)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: The Seven Habits of Wealth (11)
- 27: After-Tax Asset Allocation: Is there a gremlin lurking in your 401(k)? (1)
- 25: What a 9-day hospital stay taught me about health insurance (18)
- 23: Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Work Week: Fact or Fiction (7)
- 20: My Virtual Library (7)
- 16: Prosper vs. Lending Club SmackDown–Who has the best interest rates? (37)
- 13: Are you Saving Enough for Retirement? Check Out This Rule of Thumb (17)
- 12: How to Stop a Debt Collector from Calling or Contacting You (6)
- 11: Slow Motion Retirement–A New Way to Look at the Rest of Your Life (13)
- 09: Warren Buffett is a “Huge Bull” on the American Economy (A YouTube Interview) (0)
- 07: Actively Managed ETFs are One Step Closer (4)
- 06: DR Charitable Donations and Berkshire B Share Updated (Jan. 2008 edition) (2)
- 04: Dodge & Cox Stock Fund Will Open to New Investors (0)
- 03: Real estate, foreclosures, mortgages, and other things that go bump in the night (6)
- 02: A Microsoft — Yahoo! Merger is Good for Bloggers, the Internet and even Google (12)
- 01: Social Security is worth $225,000 for a typical retiree (2)
- 01: Winning isn’t everything. . . (1)
January 2008 (25)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Green Dimes: Stop the Junk Mail! (5)
- 31: Were you one of 127 million who may have had their identity stolen in 2007? (6)
- 30: How to buy partial shares of Berkshire Hathaway with ShareBuilder (8)
- 29: Checklist for Life–an inventory of all your financial information (3)
- 29: Get Paid to Interview for Jobs!?? (10)
- 28: Voyant Introduces Free DIY Financial Planning Tool at Demo 08 (3)
- 28: Idea Shower Firefox Extension: A Great Way to Store Online Information (2)
- 28: Richard Ferri on whether an investor should buy ETFs or mutual funds (7)
- 25: Congress to Pass Stimulus Package While the Band Plays On (23)
- 23: Reader question: Should you invest in a 401(k), a Roth IRA, or pay off credit card debt? (13)
- 22: World Markets Plunge: What should investors do (a multiple choice question)? (9)
- 20: Post-Holiday Link Love (1)
- 19: A Visual Guide to Lending Money with Prosper’s New Portfolio Plans (5)
- 19: Mint is Giving Away $5,000! (0)
- 18: Interview with Investing Author Richard A. Ferri, CFA (12)
- 17: Traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs: Here’s what’s new for 2008 (11)
- 16: Enter to Win 3 Great Investing Books by Richard A. Ferri, CFA (5)
- 15: How I Overcame My Fear of Lending Money on Prosper.com (49)
- 14: Quicken Online + The iPhone = Yuck! (with iPhone screenshots) (10)
- 11: How to Prevent Another Subprime Mortgage Debacle (or, “What My Dad Knew Long Ago”) (15)
- 10: The Dough Roller to donote 50% of its revenue to charity (24)
- 07: Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) may delay 13.5 million tax refunds (3)
- 07: TwoWiseAcres.com–Check out my real estate investing blog (5)
- 04: A Helpful 401(k) & IRA Rollover Chart from the IRS (3)
- 03: My Annual Investment Portfolio Tune-up: Asset Location and Donor Advised Funds (3)
December 2007 (24)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: My Annual Investment Portfolio Tune-up: Did I Beat the S&P 500 in 2007? (17)
- 27: My Annual Investment Portfolio Tune-up: Rebalancing (4)
- 26: My Annual Investment Portfolio Tune-up: The Asset Allocation Plan (7)
- 24: A Cautionary Tale: The importance of asset location when ‘bad’ investors head for the exits (1)
- 21: To Make Good Financial Decisions, Think Like Mr. Spock but Act Like Captain Kirk (22)
- 20: Frontier Markets: To boldly go where few investors have gone before! (1)
- 19: FAQs from The Ultimate Guide to Traditional and Roth 401(k) and IRA Retirement Accounts (0)
- 19: Carnival of Personal Finance (@ Get Rich Slowly) and Lifehacker (2)
- 18: Do low cost mutual funds outperform high cost mutual funds? (7)
- 17: Why do mutual funds close to new investors (and 3 funds that have reopened)? (1)
- 17: SEP-IRA for the Part Time Self-Employed (who also contribute to a 401k) (6)
- 16: Freddie Mac Uses YouTube to Warn of Foreclosure Scams (3)
- 16: Welcome to The Dough Roller (0)
- 14: How I beat the S&P 500 five years running and why you should (and should not) be impressed (9)
- 13: Four Incredibly Useful Financial Calculations You Can Do In Your Head (14)
- 11: Roth and Traditional 401(k): Why not invest in both? (6)
- 11: Babycenter.com: A Nifty Tool to Calculate the Cost of Raising a Child (8)
- 10: The Ultimate Guide to Roth and Traditional 401(k) and IRA Retirement Accounts (72)
- 07: PriceAmbush.com: Does it ambush the price or you? (1)
- 06: SAFETY ALERT: Are your children playing with deadly toys (HealthyToys.org) (7)
- 05: Invest Like a Monkey–An Online Tool to Put Your Investing Genius to the Test (6)
- 04: Welcome to MSN Money Readers and Buying the B Share (Nov 2007 Progress Report) (8)
- 03: Pulse: A Free Online Cash Flow Management Tool for Small Business (6)
- 01: Saturday Night at the Movies: Overcoming Fear and Finding Meaning in Life (The Truman Show) (5)
November 2007 (30)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: The SEC proposes rules to simplify a mutual fund’s prospectus (0)
- 29: Incredible trick shots on the pool table and how my dad hustled his way through college (0)
- 28: 20 Model Asset Allocations With Specific Mutual Fund Suggestions (3)
- 27: A YouTube Video on How to Make Money in Second Life (0)
- 27: How to Earn a Second Income in Your ‘Second Life’ (33)
- 25: The Weekly Dough (MSN Money & Smart Spending Money Blog Rock! edition) (3)
- 24: Saturday Night at the Movies: Declaring War on Bad Debt (Braveheart) (7)
- 22: 7 Personal Finance Books That Can Change Your Life (11)
- 21: How To Be Thankful When Life Is Tough (7)
- 20: 100+ Free Resume Templates & Samples To Help You Land Your Next Job (4)
- 19: Are You Brittney Spears or Minimum Wage? (7)
- 18: The Weekly Dough (My Daughter’s Birthday edition) (4)
- 17: Saturday Night at the Movies: “Can’t Never Did Anything” (Rocky) (5)
- 16: 3 Websites to Help You Find and Win College Scholarships (5)
- 15: How To Find Healing From A Deep Financial Wound (14)
- 14: Service Beacon: A Free Online Tool to Track Your Car’s Maintenance Schedule and History (19)
- 13: Slow Motion Retirement (or Retire Early, Retire Often) (10)
- 12: Don’t Forget to Get Your Free Credit Report (6)
- 12: Did Michelle Singletary Go Too Easy On Mr. Richie Rich? (8)
- 11: Weekly Dough (Settlers of Catan edition) (1)
- 10: Saturday Night at the Movies: Taking the Confusion Out of Personal Finance (Airplane, The Movie) (5)
- 10: Find Out If You’re On Track To Retire Early (3)
- 09: 10 Online Budget Tools (31)
- 08: A Simple Approach to Budgeting (28)
- 06: 75 Painless Money-Saving Tips (77)
- 03: Saturday Night at the Movies: How to Make Impossibly Difficult Decisions (The Matrix) (2)
- 02: How to Develop the Habit of Spending Less Than You Make (26)
- 02: What A Financially Painful Childhood Can Teach You about Money (28)
- 01: Buying the ‘B’ Share (Oct 2007 Progress Report) (8)
- 01: A New Wordpress Theme for The Dough Roller (7)
October 2007 (21)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Achieving Financial Freedom Is Simple, But Not Easy (6)
- 29: Would You Work for Dr. Gregory House? (10)
- 28: Sunday Links (Sunny Day Edition!) (2)
- 27: Saturday Night at the Movies: Personal Finance With No Regrets (5)
- 25: Thanks to Get Rich Slowly and Money, Matter, and More Musings (4)
- 24: The Doomsday Fund: How Planning for the Worst Prepares You for the Best (41)
- 23: WARNING: Some 0% Credit Cards Will Cost You A Fortune (17)
- 22: The 123rd Carnival of Personal Finance (The Boo! edition) (99)
- 19: The Republican Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Reform Plans–Where’s the Beef? (17)
- 17: When is OK Good Enough? (13)
- 16: The Dough Roller to Host the Carnival of Personal Finance! (1)
- 14: 200 Toddlers Rally Against Hillary Clinton’s Universal Pre-K Plan (16)
- 12: The Dough Roller Roundup (Attending 15 Year College Reunion edition) (3)
- 11: 4 Reasons to Buy Berkshire Instead of a Mutual Fund, And Buffett Ain’t One Of Them! (17)
- 09: October 2007: The 100 Year Anniversary of a 37% Market Crash (4)
- 08: My Best and Worst Financial Decisions (24)
- 07: Dough Roller Roundup (The Best and Worst Financial Decisions Edition) (5)
- 05: Would You Cash a 35 Cent Check? (8)
- 04: Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality (24)
- 02: What Fire Finance’s Top 100 PF Blog List Can Teach Us About Investing, Bestsellers and Cheerleaders (13)
- 01: The New ‘Baby Bond’–Let’s Give $5,000 To Every Child Born in the U.S. (21)
September 2007 (29)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Is Rich Dad the Great Black Swan Hunter? (8)
- 26: Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Plan–A Detailed Analysis (40)
- 25: Introducing the Dough-O-Meter (1)
- 23: Chess and the Art of Personal Finance–Answer Key (1)
- 22: The Daily Dough (We Reached 1,000 Visitors Per Day edition!) (5)
- 21: Protect Your King, Protect Your Assets (2)
- 20: Speed Chess and the Art of Patient Investing (4)
- 19: Behold, the Power of the Pawn (13)
- 18: Chess and the Deadly Trap of Debt (8)
- 17: Chess and the Art of Financial Goals (4)
- 17: The Daily Dough (Carnival of Personal Finance #118 edition) (3)
- 16: Chess and the Art of Personal Finance (19)
- 15: Can You Solve a Rubik’s Cube–One-Handed–in 20.09 Seconds? (1)
- 15: Forum to Discuss Metro Dream Homes (0)
- 14: Are Correlation Coefficents Converging Among Previously Disparate Asset Classes (i.e., is diversification dead?) (0)
- 14: The Daily Dough (My Back is Killing Me edition) (2)
- 13: The Daily Dough (It’s Finally Cooled Down in D.C. edition) (2)
- 12: WARNING: Converting an Index Fund to an ETF May Increase Your Wealth (3)
- 12: The Daily Dough (What’s Up With Michigan’s Football Team edition) (0)
- 11: Helping a Marine Write His Will (0)
- 11: The Daily Dough (Heroes edition) (1)
- 10: Nifty Tricks with the Rule of 72, 71, 70, 69.3, 114, 144 and My Favorites, 1.5 and 1,080,000 (11)
- 09: The Dough Roller Joins the M-Network! (3)
- 09: Weekly Dough Roller Roundup (Back to School Edition) (2)
- 08: How to Buy a Refurbished iPhone (23)
- 06: Why You Want Your Investments to Dance Like Elaine Benise, not Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (8)
- 05: How to Evaluate a Mutual Fund in 60 Seconds Flat (5)
- 04: Can You Solve This Math Problem? (14)
- 01: How to Fight With Your Spouse About Money (5)
August 2007 (37)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Calling All Bloggers! (1)
- 31: Asset Allocation for Near and Active Retirees (4)
- 30: Asset Allocation for Mid-Lifers (40s & 50s) (1)
- 29: Asset Allocation for Generation X (20s & 30s) (6)
- 28: Yogi Berra’s 7 Secrets to Building Wealth (2)
- 27: Asset Allocation in Action–Emerging Markets (1)
- 26: The Dough Roller Weekly Roundup (26 August 2007) (3)
- 25: Does Content Really Matter? (6)
- 24: Five Guys and the Art of a Great Burger (4)
- 23: Did Smart Money Magazine Rebuff the Next Warren Buffett? (3)
- 23: How College Cost Me $1.6 Million (9)
- 22: My One Money Advice (10)
- 22: The New Investor’s Toolkit (4)
- 21: Miles Levin Remembered (1)
- 21: Asset Allocation in Action–Should a Diversified Portfolio Include a REIT Mutual Fund? (1)
- 20: The Best of the Carnival of Personal Finance #114 (6)
- 20: The Greatest Risk to an Investor’s Portfolio is . . . (0)
- 20: Contracts 101: The Big Words Giveth, and the Small Words Taketh Away (0)
- 19: When Faith and Business Don’t Mix (5)
- 18: I Just-Got-Laid-Off Survival Kit (including how to find $100k+ job opportunities ) (5)
- 17: Employee Stock Options: You Got to Knooooow When to Hold’em, (When to Hold’em), Know When to Fold’em (When to Fold’em) (1)
- 16: What the Wall Street Journal Says About Asset Allocation (0)
- 16: Asset Allocation in Action–Value vs. Growth Mutual Funds (1)
- 15: How To Know Instantly You’re Being Conned–Part 2 (Metro Dream Homes) (0)
- 15: Weekly Carnivals and Such (2)
- 15: How To Know Instantly You’re Being Conned (14)
- 14: Free E-Book: Serious Money by Richard Ferri (0)
- 14: Asset Allocation in Action–Small Cap vs. Large Cap Mutual Funds (2)
- 12: Making the Most of Morningstar (and Sharebuilder): How To Buy The Warren Buffett Mutual Fund (4)
- 10: 10 Surefire Ways to Spend More Than You Make (9)
- 09: Asset Allocation in Action–Domestic vs. International Mutual Funds (2)
- 08: Asset Allocation in Action–Stocks vs. Bonds (3)
- 07: Asset Allocation in Action–Why Bother? (2)
- 06: How To Pick Your First Mutual Fund (7)
- 04: Dough Roller’s 5th Grade Teacher Discusses Retirement (1)
- 03: How Warren Buffett Would Calculate Your Intrinsic Value (And How You Should, Too) (6)
- 02: 5 Steps to Achieving the 24-hour Work Week (Which Beats The 4-Hour Work Week) (13)
July 2007 (41)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Carnival of Money Stories #19 (Dough Roller Presidential Debate Edition) (16)
- 30: 10 Stupid Things We Say To Ease The Pain of a Market Meltdown (5)
- 28: The Dough Roller Will Be Hosting The Carnival of Money Stories! (0)
- 28: Weekly Dough Roller Roundup (Playing Golf Today for the First Time this Year Edition) (0)
- 27: 10 Home Value Websites to Lookup the Value of Your Home (and your neighbor’s home) (21)
- 26: 10 Things I Now Know at 40 That I Wish I Knew at 20 (32)
- 26: Housing Down Until 2009 and Prime Borrowers Struggling to Pay (0)
- 25: Festival of Frugality #84 (0)
- 25: Buy Low, Rent Smart, Sell High–The Art of the Lease-Purchase (3)
- 25: AT&T Activated Just 146,000 iPhones During First Two Days of Sales (2)
- 24: Impulse Buying–Letting Our Kids Learn About Money By Making Mistakes (2)
- 24: Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation: Actively Managed vs. Index Mutual Funds (2)
- 23: Carnival of Personal Finance #110 (3)
- 23: 3-Step Financial Checkup (1)
- 22: Weekly Dough Roller Roundup (Massive Just Got Back from Vacation Edition) (3)
- 22: Covestor Update (22 July 2007) (0)
- 21: Using a Rented Nikon Lens in Guatemala (6)
- 20: The Myth of Zero-Down Real Estate Investing (5)
- 19: Bad Investors have Forgotten the Past (1)
- 17: Making the Most of Morningstar: Mutual Fund Screener Tool (0)
- 16: The Illusion of Control (0)
- 15: What Job (not Steve, think the Bible) Can Teach Us About Fear & Money (2)
- 14: Teaching Kids about Money in Chi-Chi Castenango, Guatemala (4)
- 14: Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation–REITs (3)
- 12: 10 Surefire Ways to Retire Broke (1)
- 11: Don’t Judge A Mutual Fund By Its Name (1)
- 10: Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation–Emerging Market Funds (3)
- 09: A Great Alternative to Buying Expensive Cameras, Lenses and other Photography Equipment (6)
- 08: Does God Want You to be Rich? (13)
- 07: I’ve Added a New Page to The Dough Roller–Book Recommendations (0)
- 07: The Dough Roller Roundup (Going on Vacation Edition) (1)
- 06: Making the Most of Morningstar: X-Ray Your Portfolio (0)
- 05: Festival of Frugality # 81 (0)
- 05: Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation–Foreign vs. Domestic Mutual Funds (4)
- 04: 5 Money-Saving Reasons to Buy an Apple iPhone (9)
- 03: Savers Will Be Losers, says Rich Dad (3)
- 03: Beginner’s Guide to Asset Allocation: Value vs. Growth Funds (8)
- 02: Number 9, Number 9–Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness (0)
- 02: Are You in a Quicken Coma? (1)
- 01: Is the Church a Charity? (6)
- 01: A New Look-and-Feel at The Dough Roller (0)

